Alex Usher

Alex Usher most recently served as the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at the cybersecurity startup Clarm. Prior to this venture, he spent two years working as a software engineer at Amazon Prime Video Financial Systems, where he led targeted fraud prevention initiatives. During his tenure at the global streaming platform, he secured complex royalty calculation infrastructure responsible for processing multiple billions of dollars in annual corporate revenue. Beyond his corporate engineering roles, Usher authored award-winning industry research identifying specific security vulnerabilities within Dafny, a verifiable programming language utilized extensively across Amazon Web Services security systems. This published academic research demonstrated his domain expertise in programming language security and enterprise systems reliability. His professional background bridges practical software development with advanced formal verification, maintaining a core focus on the cybersecurity of high-stakes financial platforms.